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Andy Beshear on KSR: "This is the worst tornado event in our history."

Jack Pilgrim

MAYFIELD, KY - DECEMBER 11: General view of the heavily tornado damaged courthouse on December 11, 2021 in Mayfield, Kentucky. Multiple tornadoes tore through parts of the lower Midwest late on Friday night leaving a large path of destruction and unknown fatalities. (Photo by Brett Carlsen/Getty Images)

The pictures, videos, and headlines don’t begin to tell the entire story of the devastation found throughout Western Kentucky today. Following a night of tornadoes plowing through the state, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear says it will go down as the “worst tornado event in our history.